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Malaysia's top anti-government blogger arrested
Sean Yoong , The Associated Press , Kuala Lumpur | Fri, 09/12/2008 2:32 PM | World
Police arrested Malaysia's top anti-government blogger Friday under a law allowing indefinite detention without trial in a move likely to face public reproach.
Online commentator Raja Petra Raja Kamarudin has infuriated authorities by publishing numerous claims about alleged misdeeds by government leaders on his influential Web site, Malaysia Today. The government has denounced many of Raja Petra's accusaions as lies.
Raja Petra's wife, Marina Lee Abdullah, said police came to their home and informed them that he was being arrested under the Internal Security Act, a widely criticized law used against suspects regarded as national security threats.
Home Minister Syed Hamid Albar said authorities were forced to act because Raja Petra had written numerous offensive pieces, including a recent one that allegedly ridiculed Islam.
"We have called and advised him many times about his statements, but he still continues writing in a way that could pose a threat," Syed Hamid told the national news agency, Bernama.
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